Raise awareness and encourage actions by demonstrating commitment of the growing group of supporters

Promote the culture of collective responsibility for resilience and security of the Internet's global routing system

Demonstrate the ability of the industry to address issues of resilience and security of the Internet's global routing system in the spirit of collective responsibility

Provide a framework for ISPs to better understand and help address issues related to resilience and security of the Internet's global routing system

As more network operators / service providers sign on to the MANRS document and do go ahead and implement the actions, we will collectively be increasing the security and resiliency of the overall Internet — which will make the Internet that much more useful for communication, collaboration and commerce.

If you operate a network - or interact with those who do — please do read through the MANRS document and sign up if you can — and help spread the word.

If everyone were to mind their Internet routing MANRS… we'd all be able to get along much better!

By Dan York, Author and Speaker on Internet technologies - and on staff of Internet Society Dan is employed as a Senior Content Strategist with the Internet Society but opinions posted on CircleID are entirely his own. Visit the blog maintained by Dan York here. Visit Page

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